Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy and Our Matriarchal Origins

The bookBefore Warwill change how its readers look at the world - by exposing the female roots of Western civilization.It draws on the evidence from anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, primatology, and the shocking new genetics data, to tell the story of Western civilization.

For readers ofSapiensandThe Dawn of Everything, this is about another way that our European ancestors lived, without violence, sexual shame, or social inequality. It's the story of a story that was buried and re-dis...